Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Last Updated: May 18, 2018

Classical Guitar Shed uses cookies, in combination with pixels, local storage objects, and similar devices (collectively, “cookies” unless otherwise noted) to distinguish you from other users of Classical Guitar Shed. This helps us provide you with a good experience, improve our service, and to personalize ads and content to you while you use the CGS Platform.

This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) describes the types of the cookies we use on the CGS Platform and our purposes for using them.

You consent to placement of cookies on your browser by us and our third party service providers. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully for details about why we use cookies and the information they collect from and about you.

Withdraw Your Consent at Any Time

If you do not wish to accept cookies in connection with your use of the Classical Guitar Shed, you will need to delete, and block or disable cookies via your browser settings; see below for more information on how to do this. Please note that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of Classical Guitar Shed, and may prevent you from being able to access certain features on Classical Guitar Shed.

What Is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit Classical Guitar Shed.

Key Concepts

First and third-party cookies: whether a cookie is ‘first’ or ‘third’ party refers to the domain placing the cookie.

Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, this would be a third-party cookie.

Persistent cookies: these cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session cookies: these cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

How to Delete and Block our Cookies

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of Classical Guitar Shed. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit Classical Guitar Shed.

Changing your Cookie Settings. The browser settings for changing your cookies settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your internet browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your internet browser for more details.

More information. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

What Cookies Do We Use and Why?

Generally we use cookies to distinguish you from other users of the Classical Guitar Shed. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the site and also allows us to improve it.

The cookies we may use on Classical Guitar Shed may be categorized as follows:

Strictly necessary

Performance

Functionality

Targeting

Some cookies may fulfill more than one of these purposes.

‘Strictly Necessary’ cookies let you move around Classical Guitar Shed and use essential features like secure areas. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the requested services.

We use these Strictly Necessary cookies to:

Identify you as being logged in to Classical Guitar Shed and to authenticate you

Make sure you connect to the right service on Classical Guitar Shed when we make any changes to the way it works

For security purposes

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using Classical Guitar Shed, so if you prevent these cookies we can’t guarantee how Classical Guitar Shed or the security on Classical Guitar Shed will perform during your visit.

‘Performance’ cookies collect information about how you use Classical Guitar Shed e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve how Classical Guitar Shed works, understand the interests of our users and measure the effectiveness of our advertising.

We use performance cookies to:

Carry out web analytics: Provide statistics on how Classical Guitar Shed is used

Perform affiliate tracking: Provide feedback to affiliated entities that one of our visitors also visited their site

Obtain data on the number of users of Classical Guitar Shed that have viewed a product or service

Help us improve Classical Guitar Shed by measuring any errors that occur

Test different designs for Classical Guitar Shed

Some of our performance cookies are managed for us by third parties.

‘Functionality’ cookies are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit.

Remember if you have engaged with a particular component or list on Classical Guitar Shed so that it won’t repeat

Show you when you’re logged in to Classical Guitar Shed

To provide and show embedded video content

Some of these cookies are managed for us by third parties.

‘Targeting’ cookies are used to track your visit to Classical Guitar Shed, as well other websites, apps and online services, including the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, which allows Classical Guitar Shed to display targeted ads to you on Classical Guitar Shed.

We may use targeting cookies to:

Display targeted ads within Classical Guitar Shed.

To improve how we deliver personalized ads and content, and to measure the success of ad campaigns on Classical Guitar Shed .

Additional Information About Advertising and Analytics

Classical Guitar Shed Opt-Out Options

To opt out of receiving personalized ads on Classical Guitar Shed: go to classicalguitarshed.com/contact and select “I need help with my account,” to tell us that you no longer wish to receive personalized ads from us in the Platform. Please include a link to your profile in your request to opt out of personalized ads. Classical Guitar Shed may still show you contextualized ads relevant to the content you’re viewing.

Third Party Analytics and Advertising

Facebook

Facebook Connect. For more information about what Facebook collects when you use Facebook buttons on Classical Guitar Shed, please see: https://www.facebook.com/about/p….

Google has developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on; if you want to opt out of Google Analytics, you can download and install the add-on for your web browser here.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google uses cookies to help us analyze how users use Classical Guitar Shed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of Classical Guitar Shed (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of Classical Guitar Shed, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of Classical Guitar Shed, compiling reports on your activity for us and third parties who help operate and provide services related to Classical Guitar Shed. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of these cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser as discussed in this notice. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of Classical Guitar Shed. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/….

What cookies do we use on Classical Guitar Shed? (Please Note: we may change the cookies we use at any time. While we will try to update this list within a reasonable time frame, this list may not always be totally up-to-date.)

First party cookies (Prefixed with m-)Formatted as cookie name (technical name): purpose

About Allen Mathews

Allen Mathews learned guitar as an adult, and has been a full-time guitar teacher for almost two decades to students age 4 to 96. He has taught classical guitar at Reed College and Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and has been a guest lecturer and clinician at schools and universities throughout the U.S. Allen is often praised for his creative teaching abilities, and his dedication to helping adults learn classical guitar. He has a popular Youtube Channel offering regular classical guitar tutorials, and has gained fans worldwide for his weekly emails and articles at ClassicalGuitarShed.com.

Thanks to you (you are my only teacher) in only a few months I've gone from very basic beginner pieces to having just completed learning Bach's Gavottes 1&2 in good form and execution. As a non-classical electric guitarist who has always used a pick and never his fingers, this has been no small feat!

-Gregg Olson

I am truly enjoying the growth and challenge that the Woodshed material provides. I look forward to working hard and learning much in the years ahead. Thanks for all the effort and care that you have taken in providing these lessons and resources!

-Mark Whitsett

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